TopBanana

I want to buy a decent oak dining room table / dresser. None of this IKEA / Tesco Direct crap, something that'll last.

Anyone know of any decent furniture suppliers not too far from Reading?

Dingdongler

Where are you based?

skoobidude

DFS?

David Lock

There was a company whose name escapes me tht made tables and things out of old hardwood railway sleepers brought in from Africa. Beautiful stuff and may be Google will help if company are still around. dl

David Lock

http://www.jarabosky.co.uk/

still going

TopBanana

Thanks David, that stuff has some real character.

DingDongler, Berks / London

Peanuts

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Ercol?

nice tackle

davyboy

I don't know where you live, but I'd have thought most towns/cities have good local furnature shops.

I thought I'd end up with oak, but bought Walnut in the end.

http://www.jonesthefurnishers.co.uk/dining.html

TopBanana

Reading is the nearest large town to me. I haven't found any decent furniture shops yet. Bought bedroom furniture in walnut from House of Fraser, but I think I could do better for my money in the rest of the house.

scarey

try your local auction houses, they have loads of this type of stuff every month and because most people want the ikea style stuff they go for peanuts.

wokingham auction is generally quite good

fatscoobfella1

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I have bought some furniture from Indigo....

Good quality and prices not bad either...

http://www.indigofurniture.co.uk/

Coffin Dodger

He said quality

We bought some solid oak bedroom furniture from here: http://www.pinesolutions.co.uk/

Very pleased with it. Can also get an extra few % off via Quidco etc.

ChefDude

we got our sofa from www.raftfurniture.co.uk

also

www.eatsleeplive.co.uk

They're not cheap though - our sofa was £5K

Trout

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Errr, the middle class choice I know - John Lewis who are in the centre of Reading.

andys

Well we brought our dinning room table and chairs from the Wokingham auction. I have also used Furniture village quite a lot

TopBanana

Yes they're about the best I've found in Reading. The House of Fraser stuff has gone downhill bigtime.

TopBanana

Thanks Chef and FatScoobyFella, just the sort of thing I was looking for.

SirFozzalot

Not local to you, but we ordered our oak dining table and chairs from here.

http://www.furniturechoice.co.uk/

Well pleased with the quality and the price seemed pretty reasonable too.

mamoon2

John Lewis stuff is massively overpriced. We use a supplier that John Lewis also use and an example is a bed that I can buy for £100 John Lewis sell for £700 Marks & Spencer are the same too

warrtster

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Our dining table is made by Willis and Gambier
Good quality stuff

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Laura Ashley? We (the missus) got ours from there a few months back about 60% off.

Good quality and you could buy through Quidco as well.

P1-Brad

I've bought some very good quality furniture from Beadle and Crome at the end of Broad Street (Reading town centre) - mostly contemporary styles but they do have some more traditional stuff ...

Chip

If your willing to travel try:

http://www.arthurllewellynjenkins.co.uk/

Excellent quality furniture and superb customer service.

Chip